[The cardio-docs decided to stop Bjarki’s heart medication today (for the crazy fast heartbeats) to see if he’s “grown out of it”. There’s been no sign of tachycardia (the crazy fast heartbeat) for about 8 weeks now, and they figured stopping it now, when he’s hooked up to a continuous monitor, would be a better idea than waiting until he’s about to go home. So we’ll just have to wait and see what happens…<\/p>\n
Bjarki repeated yesterday’s bottle-drinking achievement at noon today and downed the entire 52 mL bottle of milk without desatting. He even did a stint of suck-swallow-breathe-suck-swallow-breathe… instead of suck-swallow-suck-swallow-suck-swallow…BREATHE! And that was after nippling on “el freshly-emptied boobie” for a bit and getting 5 mL there. It has to be “freshly-emptied” since he’s still not adept enough to handle a full-blown milk-letdown, which literally drowns him causing a mighty desat!<\/p>\n
Later in the day the eye-doctor popped by and declared his eyes “stable”, i.e. still stage 2 ROP<\/a> (the link has neat explanatory images). The preemie next to Bjarki though has stage 3 ROP so the eye doctor ordered the ceiling light above him to be turned on at all times. More light apparently makes babies more prone to focus their eyes, which is supposed to beneficial, although preemies generally don’t like bright light very much. I hope Bjarki reaps some of those benefits without getting too annoyed at the bright light…<\/p>\n The most radical non-preemie activity today was to go on Lego.com<\/a> and order a bunch of individual blocks. For some reason the folks at Lego just don’t ever put the good stuff in their big bins of blocks (magnets anyone?!) so we decided to remedy the situation. Ordering on a block-by-block basis was a little cumbersome, but we hope we got the right hubs for the wheels etc! Can’t wait to get those magnets though… mmmm…magnets! \ud83d\ude42<\/i>]<\/p>\n Dagurinn \u00ed dag var fyrsti dagurinn hans Bjarka Freys \u00e1n hjartalyfsins sem stoppar ofurhra\u00f0a hjartsl\u00e1ttinn. Hann hefur ekki fengi\u00f0 svolei\u00f0is kast \u00ed um 8 vikur og \u00fev\u00ed \u00fe\u00f3tti v\u00edst kominn t\u00edmi \u00e1 a\u00f0 athuga hvort hann s\u00e9 vaxinn upp \u00far hjartaveseninu s\u00ednu. \u00de\u00e1 \u00fe\u00f3tti l\u00edka sni\u00f0ugt a\u00f0 gera \u00fea\u00f0 n\u00fana \u00e1 me\u00f0an hann er enn\u00fe\u00e1 undir st\u00f6\u00f0ugu eftirliti \u00e1 sp\u00edtalanum, frekar en r\u00e9tt \u00e1\u00f0ur en hann f\u00e6ri heim. Svo vi\u00f0 ver\u00f0um bara a\u00f0 b\u00ed\u00f0a og sj\u00e1 hva\u00f0 gerist \u00e1 n\u00e6stu d\u00f6gum.<\/p>\n \u00cd h\u00e1deginu \u00ed dag endurt\u00f3k Bjarki Freyr afrek g\u00e6rdagsins, og kl\u00e1ra\u00f0i heilan 52 mL pela af mj\u00f3lk \u00e1n \u00feess a\u00f0 missa ni\u00f0ur s\u00farefnismettun \u00e1 bl\u00f3\u00f0i. Hann meiri a\u00f0 segja saug-kyngdi-anda\u00f0i-saug-kyngdi-anda\u00f0i… \u00ed sm\u00e1 t\u00edma \u00ed sta\u00f0inn fyrir a\u00f0 sj\u00faga-kyngja-sj\u00faga-kyngja-sj\u00faga-kyngja-…ANDA!, eins og fyrirburar gera helst. Og pelinn kom eftir a\u00f0 hann haf\u00f0i drukki\u00f0 \u00f6rl\u00edti\u00f0 (5 mL) af n\u00fd-t\u00e6mdu brj\u00f3stinu. Hann er ekki or\u00f0inn n\u00f3gu g\u00f3\u00f0ur \u00ed \u00feessu til a\u00f0 r\u00e1\u00f0a vi\u00f0 mj\u00f3lkurfl\u00f3\u00f0i\u00f0 \u00far fullu brj\u00f3sti, \u00fea\u00f0 drekkir honum bara!<\/p>\n Um \u00ferj\u00faleyti\u00f0 m\u00e6tti augnl\u00e6knirinn og sag\u00f0i a\u00f0 augun hans Bjarka v\u00e6ru “st\u00f6\u00f0ug”, \u00fea\u00f0 er enn\u00fe\u00e1 me\u00f0 ROP \u00e1 \u00f6\u00f0ru stigi (sj\u00e1 \u00fatsk\u00fdringarmynd h\u00e9r<\/a>). Fyrirburinn \u00ed n\u00e6sta r\u00fami er hins vegar kominn me\u00f0 stig 3 og n\u00fa er b\u00fai\u00f0 a\u00f0 kveikja \u00e1 loftlj\u00f3sinu fyrir ofan r\u00fami\u00f0 hans. \u00dea\u00f0 \u00e1 v\u00edst a\u00f0 hj\u00e1lpa honum vi\u00f0 a\u00f0 f\u00f3kusa betur sem \u00e1 a\u00f0 vera gott fyrir augun, \u00fer\u00e1tt fyrir a\u00f0 fyrirburum s\u00e9 almennt illa vi\u00f0 miki\u00f0 lj\u00f3smagn. Vonandi hj\u00e1lpar lj\u00f3si\u00f0 Bjarka Frey l\u00edka a\u00f0 f\u00f3kusa, \u00e1n \u00feess a\u00f0 pirra hann of miki\u00f0…<\/p>\n \u00cd kv\u00f6ld t\u00f3kum vi\u00f0 okkur til og p\u00f6ntu\u00f0um g\u00f3\u00f0an slatta af s\u00e9rv\u00f6ldum leg\u00f3-kubbum af Lego.com<\/a>. Einhverra hluta vegna vir\u00f0ast snillingarnir hj\u00e1 Lego vera vo\u00f0a n\u00edskir \u00e1 skemmtilegustu kubbana og \u00feeir rata sjaldnast \u00ed st\u00f3ru kubba-kassana sem ma\u00f0ur kaupir. Vi\u00f0 s\u00e1tum \u00fev\u00ed sveitt vi\u00f0 meiripart kv\u00f6lds, og n\u00fa er bara a\u00f0 vona a\u00f0 vi\u00f0 h\u00f6fum keypt r\u00e9ttar felgur fyrir dekkin! \u00c9g hlakka samt ekkert sm\u00e1 til a\u00f0 f\u00e1 segulst\u00e1lin \u00ed hendurnar…. mmmm segulst\u00e1l! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [The cardio-docs decided to stop Bjarki’s heart medication today (for the crazy fast heartbeats) to see if he’s “grown out of it”. 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